LETTERS: NORTH COUNTY, MAY 1, 2013

Selective immigration

Many years ago two Israeli college students overstayed their visas and went about the United States to see our country, which triggered an FBI countrywide search for them. After many months of scouring the country they got them and with much fanfare took them to the airport and sent them home. On reflection these young men did not apply for welfare, low-cost housing, free medical care, food stamps and any other freebies. The United States did not offer them a “path to citizenship.” They sent them back to Israel. Well done, FBI!

My only question to them is, where were you when we were being overrun by 11 million people crossing our borders — and going from being known as “illegal aliens” to “undocumented workers” and now morphed into “immigrants.” Nay, my friends, if they are anything they are not immigrants. Immigrants apply for the right to come here. Crossing our borders and setting your foot on U.S. soil in the middle of the night does not grant you immigrant status. Illegal is illegal no matter what sugarcoated name you call it.

Will this insanity ever cease?

Phil Epstein

Carlsbad

GOP serves two master

Jesus said, in no uncertain terms, “No man can serve two masters.... Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.” (Matthew 6:24). Nonetheless, GOP leaders appear to be trying to do just that.

On the one hand, GOP leaders prostrate themselves before CPAC, each proclaiming to be the staunchest defender of the faith extant. Certainly they promote Christian “values,” as they see them: namely, preventing access to contraception and abortion. Regardless, they appear to believe their allegiance is true.

On the other hand, they pursue an economic policy that is the very antithesis of Jesus’ teachings. America is the richest nation in the world, yet 15 percent — nearly one in seven — of our fellow Americans are living in poverty. And the worst hit are our children and single mothers. Who affirms this GOP anti-Christian assault on the poor? Wall Street, the very personification of Mammon, and mega-corporations, the soulless, heartless entities granted personhood by our Supreme Court.

GOP leaders may be trying to serve two masters, but the preponderance of evidence says the scales are tipping toward Mammon.

John H. Terrell

Fallbrook

Boston bomber deserves death

If the surviving Boston bomber cannot be convicted and sentenced to death for murder, mayhem and terror then the Death Penalty, for all practical purposes, is null and void in America.

Paul B. Evans

Valley Center

Senators can expect payback

Those of us who were more than disappointed when the Senate voted against background checks should write down and remember the names of those senators who voted the legislation down so that when they come up for re-election in 2014 and 2016 we can vote to dis-elect them. Wouldn’t that be sweet revenge.

The NRA is always ranting about keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Haven’t all the killers of late been legal gun owners?